Two steals pilfered by Tom Abercrombie, in the BNZ Breakers 91-81 win against the Cairns Taipans on Friday night in Christchurch, meant he overtook Dillon Boucher (288 steals) to become the Breakers all-time leader in that statitical category. Probably worth noting though is that Boucher racked up his 288 steals in just 220 games compared with Abercrombie’s 290 in 406 appearances!
Ced Jackson was a prolific game ball thief averaging a club best 2.1 steals per game while Parker Jackson-Cartwright has begun this season averaging 2.4 per game – we’ll keep an eye on how he progresses to see if he can maintain that sort of output for the remainder of the season.
Breakers leading stealers:
Abercrombie 290 in 406 games @ 0.7pg
Boucher 288 in 220 games @ 1.3pg
Ced Jackson 278 in 130 games @ 2.1pg
Mika Vukona 252 in 354 games @ 1.4pg
Paul Henare 209 in 250 games @ 0.8pg
CJ Bruton 167 in 179 games @ 0.9pg
Corey Webster 165 in 236 games @ 0.7pg
Parker Jackson-Cartwright 17 in 7 games @ 2.4pg
As well as steals Abbo now leads the Breakers in appearances (406), wins (228), points (4,358) and blocks (258).
Also against Cairns Izayah Le’afa, with 14 points, reached the 400 career points mark with the club. He is the 39thBreaker to score 400 points and the 15th Kiwi to log that number of points for the club.
Mangok Mathiang pulled down a season high 11 rebounds.
48-hours later the Breakers lost a nail-biter in Sydney, downed 87-85 by the Kings, where Le’afa played his 100th NBL game, 58 of those in his two seasons with South East Melbourne Phoenix.
Five rebounds from Finn Delany propelled him to 754 career boards with the Breakers – only the sixth Breaker after Mika Vukona, Abbo, Alex Pledger, Dillon Boucher and big Ben Pepper to reach the milestone.
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Finn Delany is just one point shy of becoming the ninth player to score 1,600 points for the club.
Also one shy – in this case of 300 defensive rebounds – is Will McDowell-White. He will be the 16th Breaker to reach the mark but only the sixth guard following Ced Jackson (4.6), Paul Henare (1.9), CJ Bruton (1.7), Kirk Penney (3.3) and Corey Webster (1.6).
McD-W has accumulated his 299 DR’s at 3.6 per game which amongst the guards is only bettered by Ced Jackson’s 4.6 per game (see bracket figures above).
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